Good, but only works for a limited time.
Written: May 27 '04
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Pros: It works pretty well at first. You WILL be pleased. At first.
Cons: The cord's durability sucks. You're left with something not heavy enough to be a paperweight.
The Bottom Line: Save your money and just buy an in-dash CD player. In the long run, you'll be better off.
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| alterleo's Full Review: Irock Wireless Music Adapter 300w |
I've got a relatively old car. It's a 1990 Chevy Caprice. It doesn't have a CD player in it, but I have a pretty large CD collection.
I LOVE music. I practically NEED music. I can't go without it for too long. If I could listen to music at work, I probably wouldn't hate my job as much. And when I drive, I need music. And sometimes the radio doesn't cut it, because most of the time, they play the same 10 songs, and you kind of get tired of that. So until I shell out the money to buy an in dash CD player, I need something to tide me over.
I went into Radio Shack looking for a cassette adapter, when the clerk suggests this Irock Wireless Adapter. He explains how it's different from the cassette adapters. And the concept sounds great! You plug it into your CD player's headphone jack, and set your radio to one of four pre-determined stations, and voila! You're your own mini-radio station, where you make your OWN playlist!
And boy, it was great when I first started using it. The reception would cut out a bit when I would go into a tunnel, but that's fine. However, a few weeks into my use of it, things went downhill.
I noticed that the music was only playing out of one side of my car's speakers. And when I went to check and see if the Irock was plugged in all the way, all four speakers were now playing my CD. I discovered that I now had to position the Irock in a certain way to keep the cord that connects it to my CD player curved enough in order to play through all of my speakers.
Later, I checked to see if it was my CD player, but it wasn't. Ultimately, curving and twisting the cord stopped working, and ultimately the music wasn't playing out of any of my speakers.
It was still within 30 days of my purchase, so I was able to exchange it for a new one. I gave it the benefit of the doubt, and thought that maybe it was just this unit. And my new unit was convincing me it was a one-off fluke as well, as it worked better than the first one.
On the first one, when I pushed the button to tap into the radio frequency, it took a couple seconds, but the second one tapped in right away. The second one also had better reception in tunnels. It still cut out, but it had to be a pretty long tunnel.
But alas, the same problems began occurring with my new Irock.
Now, you might say to me, "You shouldn't have been so rough with it." To which I would say, "I wasn't. I just had it sitting next to me between the two front seats." It hardly moved, even when I changed CDs. The cord that goes from the Irock to the CD player looks like it should be a lot more durable than it actually is.
I ultimately spent $30 for something that only worked for a few months.
It's just not worth it.
Recommended:
No
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alterleo
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Member: Charlie Walsh
Location: Revere, MA, USA
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